Are you happy with the Penn State transition from ANGEL to Canvas? Meet the individuals responsible for developing and integrating tools into the new Penn State LMS: the technical integration team.Read Full Article →

They have been working hard to make the transition to Canvas a smooth one for the Penn State World Campus Learning Design community.
They are the members of the Penn State World Campus Learning Design programming team, who, along with the help of a couple additional programmers, have made it their mission to ensure that the integration of learning tools into the new learning management system (LMS) goes off without a hitch.Read Full Article →

They have been a crucial part of helping faculty, staff, and students feel that it truly is their Canvas.
From creating the “It’s your Canvas” campaign to holding events such as Canvas Day and Canvas Student Media Night, they have done it all in the realm of communications and marketing. They have been the communications component of the Canvas at Penn State project: meet Derick Burns and Margaret Moses. Burns, who recently moved from TLT to Enterprise IT Communications, has been with Penn State since two years after the implementation of ANGEL in 2001. He said the transition from ANGEL to Canvas has been a very large project that has had such University-wide collaboration like he has never seen before.Read Full Article →

The Canvas transition project is nearing completion, but the Learning Management System itself will continue to undergo changes, improvements and additions. Tony Anderson, who served as the Canvas project manager, will now lead that work for Penn State as manager of Learning Tools and the Learning Management System.Read Full Article →

When Garrett Huck wanted to transform the Community Mental Health Practice and Services course he teaches at the Hazleton and Wilkes-Barre campuses, he turned to Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT) and its REACH (Re-imagine, Engage, Align, and CHange) Initiative. REACH gives Penn State faculty who teach in shared academic programs the necessary resources to develop innovative and engaging courses.Read Full Article →

During the 18-month transition from ANGEL to Canvas, faculty, staff, and students have reached out for help more than 22,000 times. Of those emails, phone calls, and submitted tickets, more than 3,600 were handled by Penn State’s Learning Management System (LMS) Support Team.Read Full Article →

Digital innovation is driving creative approaches to the challenges facing the teachers of tomorrow.
With the help of Penn State Media Commons, sophomore and junior teacher education students at Penn State Harrisburg spent most of the fall 2016 semester creating multimedia projects based on research into how pre-service teachers grapple with diversity issues in K-12 classrooms. Two of these, focusing on gender diversity in the classroom and using hip hop to engage English language learners, were presented at the 19th annual Pennsylvania Chapter of the National Association of Multicultural Education conference this spring at Dickinson College.Read Full Article →

A redesigned student support lab and new learning spaces in the library at Penn State York are providing a more conducive atmosphere and expanded opportunities for collaborative learning and group projects.Read Full Article →

Penn State IT will upgrade Windows 7 classroom and lab computers to Windows 10 between Monday, August 14 and Monday, August 21, the end of the summer sessions and prior to the start of the fall semester.Read Full Article →